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How God Changes Your Brain: Breakthrough Findings from a Leading Neuroscientist Mark Waldman, co-author Andrew Newberg
9780345503428
| Trade Paperback 368pg | March 2009 | $16.00
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Over the past decade or so, numerous studies have suggested that prayer and meditation can enhance physical health and healing from illness. In this stimulating and provocative book, two academics at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Spirituality and the Mind contend that contemplating God actually reduces stress, which in turn prevents the deterioration of the brain's dendrites and increases neuroplasticity. The authors conclude that meditation and other spiritual practices permanently strengthen neural functioning in specific parts of the brain that aid in lowering anxiety and depression, enhancing social awareness and empathy, and improving cognitive functioning. The book's middle section draws on the authors' research on how people experience God and where in the brain that experience might be located. Finally, the authors offer exercises for enhancing physical, mental and spiritual health.
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About the Author: Andrew
Newberg Andrew Newberg, MD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania with secondary appointments in the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Religious Studies. Mark Waldman is a therapist and an Associate Fellow at the Center for Spirituality and the Mind, at the University of Pennsylvania. He has authored 10 books on neuroscience, relationships,and spirituality, including the recent book, Why We Believe What We Believe. How God Changes Your Brain: Breakthrough Findings from a Leading Neuroscientist 9780345503428 | Trade Paperback 368pg | $16.00
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